7/18/2006 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1. When multiplied by L, it yields the voltage across an inductor

4. Arithmetic Logic Unit

6. Electronics Industry Association

7. Greek letter

9. ECM response

13. Insulation type, abbr.

15. In a capacitor, the time rate of energy conversion into heat when subjected to a changing electric field

18. An LP filter spec., abbr.

19. Army-Navy

20. Nordic Mobile Telephone

22. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

23. Charged particles

24. Circuit for firing a magnetron, abbr., pl.

25. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1672

28. Remove excess heat

30. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

31. One port on a mixer

33. Opposite of I.D.

34. Opposite of O.D.

37. Rate needed to leave the Earth's gravitational pull

40. Cable television, abbr.

41. Used logic gates to create redundant power supply connections

43. Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K)

44. Exponent that returns the original number

45. Miniature threaded RF connector

46. Provide a hermetic interface

 DOWN

1. Singulated piece of IC wafer

2. 10^-1 numerical prefix

3. Large supplier of coaxial cable

4. Prefix for under self-control

5. A compiler directive

8. RF design tool vendor in Espoo, Finland

10. CDMA Development Group, abbr.

11. Forward Error Correction

12. Add solder to tip of iron

14. Modem encoding method, abbr.

16. Commercial Off-the-Shelf

17. Increase voltage linearly

21. Part of a FOR loop

22. One port of an amplifier

26. Test equipment manufacturer, now Agilent

27. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector

28. Inductor

29. Unix, Linux or Windows

32. Country where RF Cafe is located

33. Original Equipment Manufacturer

35. Department Of Defense

36. 3-phase transformer configuration

37. Official engineering change document, abbr., pl.

38. Organization that creates standards for telephony, abbr.

39. Technical drawing structure

42. Keyboard key, abbr.

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